Vax crunch in K’taka, B’luru may run out of stock in three days
Sunitha.Rao@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru:23.03.2021
Vaccination in Karnataka may have to be paused if the state doesn’t receive its next consignment of 12 lakh doses in the next couple of days.
Several hospitals in Bengaluru have either received very few vials or none at all. At several sites, senior citizens were sent back as there has been no supply from BBPM, Bengaluru’s civic body. While the state has targeted vaccinating 3 lakh persons a day, it may not meet the mark due to the acute shortage.
Health commissioner K V Trilok Chandra told TOI the state has been waiting for 12 lakh doses of Covishield and they could land this week. The state has so far received 31 lakh doses, including 3.9 lakh doses of Covaxin. Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association (PHANA) president Dr HM Prasanna said some of its hospitals have faced vaccine shortage. “No vaccine was supplied to my hospital for the past two days but we got it on Monday. At this pace, we’ll take years to cover all the vulnerable populations,” Dr Prasanna, who heads Pristine hospital in Bengaluru West, said.
Though BBMP’s target is1 lakh people a day, it records 30,000-35,000 vaccinations. “By that scale, we have stocks for three days,” said BBMP special health commissioner Rajendra Cholan.
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